The First Rainbow Coalition

56 mins
Chicago 1969: Activists from the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots united African Americans, Latinos, and poor whites to confront police brutality and unfair housing practices in one of America’s most segregated cities. A timely story of collective action, The First Rainbow Coalition tells this little-known chronicle of political struggle with insight and urgency using archival footage and interviews with those who lived it.

Fred Hampton

Self (archive footage)

Bobby Lee

Self (archive footage)

Bobby Rush

Self (archive footage)

Susanne Mason

Associate Producer

Michael Ehrenzweig

Supervising Producer

Leslie Fields-Cruz

Executive Producer

Lois Vossen

Executive Producer

Sally Jo Fifer

Executive Producer

Sandie Viquez Pedlow

Executive Producer

Ray Santisteban

Director of Photography

Angélica Negrón

Original Music Composer

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